FBI investigates mysterious death of American lady on vacation with friends in Mexico
America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has waded into the mysterious death of a pretty American lady who went to Mexico with a group of friends.
Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old woman from Charlotte, North Carolina travelled to the resort city of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, on Oct. 28 with six friends to celebrate one of their birthdays.
One of the friends called Robinson’s mother less than 24 hours later to announce that she was feeling unwell. The family was later told she was dead.
The family of the deceased got suspicious when the stories told by each of the friends in Mexico with Robinson were inconsistent.
The mother was told on the phone that it was alcohol poisoning. An autopsy released by Mexican authorities stated something else.
Meanwhile, the mother, Sallamondra, had talked to her daughter on the Friday preceding her death. She was getting ready to go to dinner with the group. Hours later, she was no longer alive.
“She said, ‘Well, mother, I’m getting ready to eat,'” Sallamondra told ABC News. “I said, ‘Well, OK. Enjoy yourself. Have a good time. And I love you and I will talk to you tomorrow.’”
An autopsy report from the Mexican Secretariat of Health indicated that Robinson suffered a broken neck and a cracked spine. No mention of alcohol was included in the report. In a death certificate, obtained by Queens City News, Robinson’s death was attributed to a “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation,” meaning that her first vertebra was loosened or detached from the base of her skull. The approximate time between injury and death was determined to be 15 minutes, the report noted.
The certificate also stated that Robinson was found unconscious in the living room of a villa by a maid.
A spokesperson for the company that owns the villa the ladies stayed at told WJZY that the group had called for help from the company’s concierge, who enlisted a doctor to give Robinson CPR. She was pronounced dead at 3 p.m. that day.
The company said they were working diligently to determine the facts surrounding the incident, “which is currently being investigated as an isolated criminal matter that happened involving guests at a private villa located in Los Cabos.”
More facts emerged when a blogger in North Carolina, Gerald Jackson, on Tuesday, published video footage that he alleges shows a woman attacking Robinson.
The family reviewed the video and Robinson’s mother was able to recognise the other people in the video as the people on the trip with Robinson, and she believes it was captured on the trip to Cabo.
In the video, a woman appears to pummel Robinson with punches, as Robinson tries to get her balance. A voice off-camera tells Robinson to “At least fight back.”
The family wants all those on the trip with their daughter to be brought to justice.
No arrests have been made so far.
The family has vowed to get to the root of the matter, whatever it costs.
